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Three Chinese seamen arrive in the continental United States aboard the ship Pallas in Baltimore, MD.
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The first U.S. Census notation of Chinese in America records three Chinese living in the United States.
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There is record of four Chinese living in the United States.
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Chinese American population represents 4,000 out of a total U.S. population of 23.2 million.
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Between 1890 and 1920, about two million African Americans migrate from the rural southern states to the northern cities, where they hope to find better opportunities and less discrimination.
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Congress makes the Chinese Exclusion acts indefinite. Law enforcement officials arrest 250 allegedly illegal Chinese immigrants without search warrants.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, and prominent black leader W.E.B. Du Bois becomes editor of the group's monthly magazine, Crisis.
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James Weldon Johnson's influential novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is published.
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Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey arrives in Harlem and founds the United Negro Improvement Association, an organization that urges blacks to unite and form their own nation.
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Between 10,000 and 15,000 African Americans join the Silent Protest Parade, marching down Fifth Avenue in complete silence to protest violence against blacks.